_Hokkaidō_ (Northern Sea Road). Oshima, Shiribeshi, Iburi, Ishikari, Hitaka, Tokachi, Teshiwo, Kushiro, Nemuro, Kitami (all on the island of Yezo), and Chishima, or the Kurile Islands. _Ryūkyū_ (Loo Choo) Islands. This group constituted one, the 85th, _Kuni_. The following is the list of Japanese Prefectures (_Ken_ and _Fu_):— The _Fu_ number three: Tōkyō, Kyōto, and Ōsaka. The _Ken_ number forty-three: Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Nagano, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Aichi, Miye, Gifu, Shiga, Fukui, Ishikawa, Toyama, Niigata, Fukushima, Miyagi, Yamagata, Akita, Iwate, Aomori, Nara, Wakayama, Hyōgo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Tottori, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kōchi, Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Ōita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, and Okinawa (Ryūkyū Islands). Hokkaidō and Formosa are at present administered as “territories” by the Imperial Government, although the former has recently been granted a small measure of local self-government. TABLES OF JAPANESE MONEY, WEIGHT, AND MEASURE[198] _Length (Sashi). Japanese Weights and Measures._ As the use of the Japanese weights and measures is becoming more and more frequent in reports and books from the Far East, the following tables will be found useful to all persons who wish to ascertain the equivalents of the Japanese terms in similar terms in use in the United States and in England:— LONG MEASURE (_SASHI_) 1 _Mō_ (0.0001 _Shaku_) 0.000099 foot. 1 _Rin_ (10 _Mō_) 0.00099 foot. 1 _Bu_ (10 _Rin_) 1.4317 lines. 1 _Sun_ (10 _Bu_) 1.1931 inches. 1 _Shaku_ (10 _Sun_) 11.9305 inches. 1 _Ken_ (6 _Shaku_) 1.9884 yards. 1 _Jō_ (10 _Shaku_) 3.3140 yards. 1 _Chō_ (60 _Ken_) 5.4229 chains (1.15 m.). 1 _Ri_ (36 _Chō_) 2.4403 miles (2-1/2 m.). 1 _Kai-Ri_ (Marine _Ri_) 1.1507 miles. DRY GOODS MEASURE (_KUJIRA-JAKU_) 1 _Sun_ (0.1 _Shaku_) 1.4913 inches. 1 _Shaku_ (10 _Sun_) 14.9130 inches. 1 _Tan_ (about) 11 yards. 1 _Hiki_ (about) 22 yards. WEIGHT (_HAKARI_) 1 _Mō_ 0.000008 pound (avoirdupois). 1 _Rin_ (10 _Mō_) 0.000083 pound „ 1 _Fun_ (10 _Rin_) 5.7972 grains „ 1 _Momme_ (10 _Fun_) 2.12 drams „ 1 _Kin_ (160 _Momme_) 1.3251 pounds „ 1 _Kwan_ (1,000 _Momme_) 8.2817 pounds „ CAPACITY (_MASU_) 1 _Shaku_ (10 _Sai_) 0.00397 gallon. 1 _Gō_ (10 _Shaku_) 1.2706 gills; 0.0199 peck. 1 _Shō_ (10 _Gō_) 1.5881 quarts; 0.1985 peck. 1 _To_ (10 _Shō_) 3.9703 gallons; 1.9851 pecks. 1 _Koku_ (10 _To_) 39.7033 gallons; 4.9629 bushels. SUPERFICIAL MEASURE (TANBETSU)